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Why do credit card forms ask for Visa, MasterCard, etc.?@BergQuester and how many people will look at the image of the card logos and ignore it as just another pretty bit of branding that gets scattered all over websites? Besides, what's wrong with making the user slow down a little in this rather important step.

Jan17

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Why do washing machines have windows?@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun oh no, I imagine it uses 4 litres at a time - 5 washes/rinses @ 4 litres each. I was just pointing out the water usage efficiency of the entire thing compared to hand-washing a full load.

Jan16

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Why do washing machines have windows?My dishwasher (Electrolux ESL4115) manual says of the 'intensive' wash: 1.7kWh and 20 litres of water. That's used up in a prewash, main wash and 3 rinses. Note your usual washing up bowl is roughly 9 litres in capacity. (and the common wash I use in the dishwasher consumes 8 litres)

Feb12

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UI Lag: What's considered “smooth”?I disagree there: the lack of response for Kinect (or anything else) doesn't matter for accuracy. What matters is the user ability to use it - and with lag, the user will get pretty fed up with it very quickly. I have some digital headphones that has some lag and they are useless for playing music as the slight delay between strumming a chord and hearing it makes the whole experience unsatisfactory. The reason they're ok for listening to mp3s is there is no user feedback at all.

What is the most common user interface in the world?all OSes have a CLI embedded in their windows systems. So even those "purely" Windows OS still have CLIs. Its not a generic term for an interface though - its the "type stuff out" interface via programming. You could say that Programming apps is a form of CLI interaction too.

Dec24

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Interesting user interfaces from sci-fi movies & tv?Also the 'anthropomorphic' UIs are the best for non-technical users (which definitely describes Lister), but this also applies to any interface that has a natural-language input. The pretty face of the UI is nice but not as accurate as a lower-level UI. (you could say the same about Windows however, or any higher-level UI)